Democrats H**e True Education
May 9, 2018 16:23:30 #
Hating DeVos
John Stossel
People h**e Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
When she spoke at the Kennedy School of Government, students held up signs calling her a “w***e s*********t.”
When she tried to visit a school, activists physically blocked her way.
The h**ers claim DeVos knows little about education, only got her job because she gave money to Republican politicians and h**es free public education.
Of course, education isn’t really “free.”
Taxpayers spend $634 billion a year on it. It’s laughable that activists claim conservatives “cut” education spending. Funds per student tripled over the past several decades, while test scores stayed flat.
Some of that failure is because of what DeVos really opposes: government’s education bureaucracy.
The department she inherited is a good example of that. K-12 schools are controlled and funded locally, but taxpayers are forced to ship education money to Washington, D.C., where bureaucrats there grab some, and then ship the rest back — with strings attached.
President Reagan tried to get rid of the Department of Education. He failed. Since then, it’s only grown. It now spends $193.1 billion a year.
DeVos proposed a mere $9 billion in cuts.
But nothing goes away in Washington, no matter how wasteful. The Republican Congress ignored her proposed cuts and increased her budget by $2 billion.
DeVos, like some other agency heads appointed by President Trump, resists expanding the federal bureaucracy.
People h**e her for that, too.
When activists blocked her school visit, she told me for my latest online video, “We drove away, and (the security guard) said, ‘Ma’am, I don’t think we should go back’ and I said … ‘They are not going to win. I am determined to meet those kids and those teachers.'”
She did.
The protesters seemed less interested in her views on education than on the fact that she’s rich.
One yelled: “Keep giving money to senators.”
DeVos is rich. Her father built a company that became worth more than a billion dollars. Then she married into to the Amway marketing fortune.
Walter Shaub, former head of the Office of Government Ethics, told CNN, “DeVos’s primary expertise seems to be in being a rich person.”
I asked DeVos about the charge that she “bought her position.”
“Yes, I have been a contributor,” she said. “I’ve also been an activist. I think it’s important for people to engage in things that they believe in. But that’s not the point. The point is for 30 years I have been working on behalf of families that have not had opportunity.”
She benefited from the free market. Now she wants to bring those benefits to students who’ve been badly treated by government-run schools.
She donated to charter and private schools and served on the boards of groups that promote education choice.
None of that counts as expertise, says the education establishment.
“What she has done is actually made schooling worse in Michigan,” ranted teachers union boss Randi Weingarten on MSNBC. “Eighty percent of the charter schools in Detroit are failing.”
Some Detroit schools are doing badly, acknowledges DeVos, but charter students do “demonstrably better than the students in traditional public schools.”
She’s right. A Stanford study found that kids at Detroit charter schools get months of additional learning every year compared to their public school peers. Choice did help.
Charter and private schools are often better because they are freer to innovate. They can do things like set different hours, be open during summer and pay good teachers more.
Parents in the rest of the country deserve that opportunity, too.
“If there were real choice, good teachers would make much more money,” I suggested to DeVos.
“Absolutely,” she replied. “By the same token, teachers who aren’t good and really shouldn’t be in the classroom probably wouldn’t be… (N)obody would choose their classroom! People are not stupid. They know where their kid is going to do best.”
Unions and education bureaucrats don’t want parents making those decisions. They say, “Teachers should be retrained, not fired” and “Competition is not for kids!”
“We need to do something different,” says DeVos. “This country is on a trajectory to failure, ultimately, if we do not turn around how we educate kids.”
This is scary.....67% of all employed in Federal funded education are in upper management positions! Tail is wagging the Dog!
John Stossel
People h**e Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
When she spoke at the Kennedy School of Government, students held up signs calling her a “w***e s*********t.”
When she tried to visit a school, activists physically blocked her way.
The h**ers claim DeVos knows little about education, only got her job because she gave money to Republican politicians and h**es free public education.
Of course, education isn’t really “free.”
Taxpayers spend $634 billion a year on it. It’s laughable that activists claim conservatives “cut” education spending. Funds per student tripled over the past several decades, while test scores stayed flat.
Some of that failure is because of what DeVos really opposes: government’s education bureaucracy.
The department she inherited is a good example of that. K-12 schools are controlled and funded locally, but taxpayers are forced to ship education money to Washington, D.C., where bureaucrats there grab some, and then ship the rest back — with strings attached.
President Reagan tried to get rid of the Department of Education. He failed. Since then, it’s only grown. It now spends $193.1 billion a year.
DeVos proposed a mere $9 billion in cuts.
But nothing goes away in Washington, no matter how wasteful. The Republican Congress ignored her proposed cuts and increased her budget by $2 billion.
DeVos, like some other agency heads appointed by President Trump, resists expanding the federal bureaucracy.
People h**e her for that, too.
When activists blocked her school visit, she told me for my latest online video, “We drove away, and (the security guard) said, ‘Ma’am, I don’t think we should go back’ and I said … ‘They are not going to win. I am determined to meet those kids and those teachers.'”
She did.
The protesters seemed less interested in her views on education than on the fact that she’s rich.
One yelled: “Keep giving money to senators.”
DeVos is rich. Her father built a company that became worth more than a billion dollars. Then she married into to the Amway marketing fortune.
Walter Shaub, former head of the Office of Government Ethics, told CNN, “DeVos’s primary expertise seems to be in being a rich person.”
I asked DeVos about the charge that she “bought her position.”
“Yes, I have been a contributor,” she said. “I’ve also been an activist. I think it’s important for people to engage in things that they believe in. But that’s not the point. The point is for 30 years I have been working on behalf of families that have not had opportunity.”
She benefited from the free market. Now she wants to bring those benefits to students who’ve been badly treated by government-run schools.
She donated to charter and private schools and served on the boards of groups that promote education choice.
None of that counts as expertise, says the education establishment.
“What she has done is actually made schooling worse in Michigan,” ranted teachers union boss Randi Weingarten on MSNBC. “Eighty percent of the charter schools in Detroit are failing.”
Some Detroit schools are doing badly, acknowledges DeVos, but charter students do “demonstrably better than the students in traditional public schools.”
She’s right. A Stanford study found that kids at Detroit charter schools get months of additional learning every year compared to their public school peers. Choice did help.
Charter and private schools are often better because they are freer to innovate. They can do things like set different hours, be open during summer and pay good teachers more.
Parents in the rest of the country deserve that opportunity, too.
“If there were real choice, good teachers would make much more money,” I suggested to DeVos.
“Absolutely,” she replied. “By the same token, teachers who aren’t good and really shouldn’t be in the classroom probably wouldn’t be… (N)obody would choose their classroom! People are not stupid. They know where their kid is going to do best.”
Unions and education bureaucrats don’t want parents making those decisions. They say, “Teachers should be retrained, not fired” and “Competition is not for kids!”
“We need to do something different,” says DeVos. “This country is on a trajectory to failure, ultimately, if we do not turn around how we educate kids.”
This is scary.....67% of all employed in Federal funded education are in upper management positions! Tail is wagging the Dog!
May 9, 2018 17:33:12 #
But, let's not forget, charter schools like private schools, get to choose their students. The showing for public schools would be much, much better if they only had students with totally supportive parents, from good home environments, students raised with good manners, personal responsibility, and expected by everyone to work hard and do their very best. Public schools would make a much better showing if they were not overwhelmed with nonEnglish speaking foreign illegal students who, mostly, have no interest in learning English, or really anything else taught in our schools, mostly coming from uninterested parents who speak no English and, at home, retain an atmosphere and environment just like the one they left behind.
May 9, 2018 17:48:15 #
May 9, 2018 18:11:22 #
bahmer wrote:
Amen and Amen
I have to say “amen” also. My daughter faces children whose parents speak no English and don’t appear to have any interest in their children’s education. However, if anything goes wrong they come to school with an interpreter and loudly lodge their complaint
May 9, 2018 18:13:01 #
May 9, 2018 18:33:27 #
Idsutton, It is true that there in no love lost between DeVos and the Democrats. DeVos is taking federal money from the state run public schools and giving those sorely needs funds to private and non public schools. It's a great country to be rich.
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Hating DeVos br John Stossel br br People h**e Se... (show quote)
May 9, 2018 21:14:32 #
woodguru wrote:
Republicans are ignorant and they do everything to keep it that way.
woodie: Here is the t***h!....democrats are ignorant and they do everything to keep it that way, especially with there minorities.
May 9, 2018 21:18:21 #
saltwind 78 wrote:
Idsutton, It is true that there in no love lost between DeVos and the Democrats. DeVos is taking federal money from the state run public schools and giving those sorely needs funds to private and non public schools. It's a great country to be rich.
saltwind78: The day you realize that federal involvement in education is a disaster! Is the day you may consider realigning yourself with logic and piss on the liberal socialist logic that is driving you're ineptness! I would rather be rich than miserable!
May 10, 2018 12:50:57 #
Idsuttonir, But just think how wonderful the world will be when the Progressives guide us to that time when everyone is equally ignorant and poor. Free your mind and imagine the joy of an all inclusive and equal society free of opposing thought, even the birds will chirp in unison. These poor bastards have no idea what they're getting themselves into, "Forgive them father for they know not what they do".
May 10, 2018 13:10:59 #
F.D.R. wrote:
Idsuttonir, But just think how wonderful the world will be when the Progressives guide us to that time when everyone is equally ignorant and poor. Free your mind and imagine the joy of an all inclusive and equal society free of opposing thought, even the birds will chirp in unison. These poor bastards have no idea what they're getting themselves into, "Forgive them father for they know not what they do".
F.D.R: Absolutely! This Cartoon explains it all!
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